/wikitribune

Information about, and links to, the collaborative editing plugins we developed for WikiTribune (available via their GitHub)

Our open-source tools for WikiTribune

WikiTribune, a project initiated by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, aims to ‘fix the news’ by combining the work of a professional editorial team with contributions from citizen journalists who can provide additional information and help to eliminate bias and error.

The project requires a fine balance of freedom, trust and accountability, and we helped WikiTribune to extend WordPress’s native functionality to:

We have jointly open-sourced the plugins with WikiTribune to help other civic media organisations, community journalism projects and multi-author WP sites who require similar functionality.

The plugins can be downloaded and forked from WikiTribune’s GitHub via the links above.